The only big surprise that I found was the fact that they are using GDDR5 memory. It is a strange choice when paired with an APU. The bonus for GDDR5 is the bandwidth of it, or the amount of data that can be pushed and pulled from the ram at one time. The strange thing is the APU they are using really cant use most of that bandwidth. Unless they have something odd going on with how the APU is interfacing with the memory it seems like mostly lost bandwidth.

All of which is entirely possible. Until someone tears a PS4 open and inspects it we dont know all of what is going on under the hood. Maybe Sony knows of something new hardware wise that is coming down the pipeline that we dont. All in all though it was basically exactly what the rumors claimed it to be.

The fact that they could put together a characters face like that ugly old man's in just a rough first try makes me very interested to see how things will be in a few years. I wouldn't have expected games as good looking as Heavy Rain on a PS3. I can only assume that this will continue

I think right now Sony is on a good track. The big hardware gimmick is of course the share button, which clearly will be hit or miss. Either you are a social gamer and use it or you aren't and wont. It won't be anything like a rumble pack or something that really changes the game. But the spectator stuff is a cool feature. Especially since I know for a fact that there is a huge group of people that have been wanting it for a while. I have noticed this site tends to look down on sports gamers but when you're playing an online season with people across the country and want to watch whichever two users made it to the championship that's always been a much harder setup then it will be now that it's built in.

There's definitely still more to show though. I mean they quickly said here's our controller with a move bar and a stereo camera and then didn't really say anything else about it the entire conference. Same with the touchpad. The only thing I first thought of for the move bar that would be a welcomed addition is if when you played anything splitscreen the camera could read which controller was in which part of the room and automatically set up the screens to match the controllers. Though I doubt that will happen if only because offline spltscreen seems to be a thing of the past

They are at an awesome start to the ps4. But I seriously want to know the cons how much does it cost when can I preorder is inFamous second son, Final Fantasy and Knack will be a launch title. How soon can I play ps3 games since it is not truly backwards compatible

The game that I was most excited for was Deep Down, Capcom's new IP. The discussion of late is, whether the trailer shown was all pre-rendered, real-time, or post after effects to make it look better than it really is. Regardless, I'm really excited for it.